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1、PrefaceAuthor(s):HenryLouisGates,Jr.Reviewedwork(s):Source:TheWilliamandMaryQuarterly,ThirdSeries,Vol.58,No.1,NewPerspectivesontheTransatlanticSlaveTrade(Jan.,2001),pp.3-5Publishedby:OmohundroInstituteofEarlyAmericanHistoryandCultureStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2674413.Acc
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4、eWilliamandMaryQuarterly.http://www.jstor.orgPrefaceHenryLouisGates,Jr.TISHEspecteroftheenslavementofblackhumanbeingsfromtheAfricancontinentonascaleunprecedentedinsavageryandbrutalityinhumanhistoryhashauntedAfrican-Americandiscourseforthepasttwocenturies.Anxiety,angst,anger,bittern
5、ess,remorse,regret,sadness,and,iftruthbetold,embarrassment,complicity,shame,theurgetoforget,aswellasprideintheurgetorememberandglorify-theseareonlyafewofthebroadrangeofemotionsthatAfricanAmericanshaveexpressedintheirwritingsaboutourslavepast,aboutthecomplexheritageofasystemofslav-e
6、rythatconstitutedforpeopleofAfricandescentwhatT.S.Eliotcalledthedisassociationofsensibility,atermhecoinedtodescribetheinternecineaspectoftheWorldWarIexperiencefortheWesternworld,theexperiencethatseveredwhatevercontinuityostensiblyobtainedbetweenclassicalGreco-RomancultureandmodernE
7、urope.Thatiswhatslaverywasforus.Especiallyinthenineteenthandearlytwentiethcenturies,AfricanAmericansfeltadeep-seatedangerattheroleofEuropeansandAmericansintheslavetrade,yettheirangerwasoftencoupledwithadeepsenseofambivalenceandambiguity.Theirdiscomfortmaybeattributedpartlytoincompl
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